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Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 with SP1

shair — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:09:07 GMT

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 with SP1

Just to let you know that Microsoft has release SP1 for Team Explorer Everywhere includes:

Auto-connect on Start-up
Fast Workspace Switching
Source Control Explorer Improvements

You can download the path from Here

VS 2010 SP1 Beta – Test and Lab Improvements

shair — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:28:46 GMT

VS 2010 SP1 Beta – Test and Lab Improvements

On my previous posts I’ve talked about VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has Released, now available for everyone and not just MSDN Subscribers.

Service Pack 1 Beta - General availability download
Service Pack 1 Beta – MS DN Subscribers only download

In the last post I wrote about about Improvements comes with SP1 Beta for VS/TFS 2010 , but not all… from the Testers side there were also a lot improvements and here is some of them:

For the full article read Amit Chatterjee's

Microsoft Test Manager

Support for Expression Encoder 4.0 in Manual testing
Fixes we released as part of hotfix for Microsoft Test Manager
‘Configure Diagnostic Data Adapter-Event Log’ page is truncated in localized version of Microsoft Test Manager
Analyzing test result causes it to become most recent result in the test point trend
Remember Right-To-Left language settings across MTM sessions
Query-based test suite repopulation takes too long for large suites
Microsoft Test Runner : Crash after choosing browser type for FireFox playback
Unable to collect Intellitrace data if application under test is launched as a part of action recording for the test case
Parameterization: Can't bind parameter to password field when creating Action Recording
Microsoft Test Runner: Show test case description in MTR
API: Attachment count for test results returns 0 when iterating through large amount of test results
Performance improvements for Microsoft Test Manager

FastForward/CodedUITest

Fixes we released as part rollup hotfix
Coded UI Test Project is incompatible with Setup/Deploy projects in the same solution
UI Test Controls added to UIMap are case-insensitive
Creating Coded UI Test from existing action recording does not show up alternate credentials dialog
BrowserWindow.FindMatchingControls() throws UITestException

VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has Released

shair — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:46:39 GMT

VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has Released

Brian Harry just post some wonderful news for TFS and Visual Studio 2010 Users, the SP1 for VS/TFS 2010 Is out for MSDN Subscribers and on Thursday for everyone else.

Download links for MSDN Subscribers (Note all 3 of these links are the same. You’ll find the 3 downloads and more on the subscriber site at this link):

.NET Framework 4 Update Beta otherwise know as .NET Framework 4 KB2162169 – BETA
VS 2010 SP1 Beta (Includes the .NET Framework 4 update)
TFS 2010 SP1 Beta (Includes the .NET Framework 4 update)

Download links for everyone else (available on Thursday):

.NET Framework 4 Update Beta – otherwise know as .NET Framework 4 KB2162169 – BETA
VS 2010 SP1 Beta (Includes the .NET Framework 4 update)
TFS 2010 SP1 Beta (Includes the .NET Framework 4 update)

Full Information at Brian’s Harry Blog

Here is some of the thing included in the Service Pack:

Local help viewer - We got ample feedback during the VS 2010 Beta 2 period that people really missed having a local help viewer. The help team has been working hard and had some previews of a new local help viewer. It is now incorporated into SP1.

Silverlight 4 tools - The Silverlight 4 tools are now included along with Silverlight 3 support.

Unit Testing on .NET 3.5 - In VS 2010, you can only run unit tests against .NET 4.0 and must rely on Framework compatibility to trust that your app will actually work if deployed on .NET 3.5. While Framework compatibility is VERY good, it's not perfect and we've heard focused but strong feedback that unit testing on the actual .NET 3.5 Framework is a must. In SP1, you can.

Intellitrace for 64-bit and Sharepoint - Intellitrace is the revolutionary new debugging technology in VS 2010 that allows you to move forward and backwards through a debug session. With it being a V1 offering at RTM, we just didn't have time to make it work in all scenarios. In SP1, we've rounded it out with a couple of important ones - 64-bit and Sharepoint. We still don't have Silverlight or unmanaged C++ support but we'll continue to make progress on important scenarios.

Performance Wizard for Silverlight - With SP1, you will be able to profile your Silverlight code to tune your app performance. Also, because so much of Silverlight is about rendering performance and a traditional code profiler is a blunt tool for tuning that kind of thing, we have included a number of higher level profiling abstractions to make is easier to understand where your app is really spending the time.

VB Compiler runtime switch (/vbruntime) – VB.NET relies on some VB specific runtime libraries. In the past this has made support for VB.NET on new .NET platforms come to market more slowly than C#. For instance support for VB.NET was enabled on Windows Phone 7 when we released the Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. This new switch and the underlying VB runtime refactoring will enable you to include the key VB runtime components as references in your application, making it easier for you to target new platforms as they are released.

Enjoy

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crashes on close

Shai Raiten — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:44:20 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crashes on close

When closing VS2008 you will get:

When I was trying to move the solution container to the left-hand causes the IDE to crash again.

If found couple of ways to "Solve" this problem.

You can run VS2008 from command-line : devenv

devenv / safemode

Or change the Compatibility of VS2008 to 2003 or XP

When I Met SP1 for Visual Studio & TFS 2008

Shai Raiten — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:43:18 GMT

When I Met SP1 for Visual Studio & TFS 2008

If you didn’t know about VS2008 SP1 read bharry's post - Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Before we start let me tell you one thing: Backup the entire TFS!
And download Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Installer)

Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1

I’ll tell briefly my case so you can avoid this or find the solution, should you have the same reason for the problem.

Install fails with the 1603 error code

When I tried to install the KB949786 (TFS SP1), the first part went always fine (TFS Build), but it ended in Fatal Error during the update of the actual TFS. TFS got into unusable state (clients couldn’t connect etc)

The errors in the Event Log were:

“Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server - ENU - Update ‘KB949786′ could not be installed. Error code 1603. Additional information is available in the log file <file>”

After some googling, I found similar symptoms from the MSDN Forums.
Logins etc were alright in my case, The Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installation was corrupt - Reinstall.
(Tip: don’t change TFS service accounts unless you have a very good reason and if you do, use the tools mentioned in the forum)

Client Cannot connect to TFS after installing sp1

Getting error :
TFS31001: Team Foundation cannot retrieve the list of team projects from Team Foundation Server
TFS2008: The Team Foundation Server returned the following error: Team Foundation services are not available from the server.
TF30059: Fatal error while initializing web service

Just Install Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1

HTTP code 503: TF30059: Fatal error while initializing web service" or "HTTP code 403: Forbidden

Change the directory security in ISS from "deny access" to "granted access".
Change the TFS SQL server databases (TfsActivityLogging, TfsBuild, TfsIntegration, and TfsVersionControl) from SINGLE_USER to MULTI_MODE.
Restart IIS - and you should be fine.

Good Luck with the upgrade, feel free to ask me questions.